Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="A room in the Laboratory of Fossil Invertebrates, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder 1A, Negative Number: SIA2009-1806."][/caption]
Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and avian paleontologist, was the Smithsonian's sixth Secretary (1945-1952). As a young biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey, Wetmore conducted extensive fieldwork in Latin America. He spent 1911 in Puerto Rico studying bird life, and later traveled through South